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You share your private key with them. Either before dying (that requires a lot of trust, I wouldn't recommend it), or after being dead through a will.
by phito 3y ago
You share your private key with them. Either before dying (that requires a lot of trust, I wouldn't recommend it), or after being dead through a will.
- avodonosov 3y agoNot secure to have the key printed in ones will.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoSecure is relative here. In this case, it would exist in one additional place (besides your possession) if the whole key was stored on the document. You can also break up keys into multiple parts, such that you need N pieces of M total to recover the key. e.g. N = 2, M = 3: you derive three subkeys, two of which are needed to recover the key. Or, you could require the key stored in the will, plus any number of other keys for recovery. Cryptographers have spent a long time doing math to make these kinds of key systems possible. I've gone down many a wikipedia rabbithole in the past about such problems.
- phito 3y agoNeither is it secure to leave your data on your computer without encryption and password